We are as the flute.



We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely!

Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls,
that we should remain in being beside thee?

We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.

We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing onward from moment to moment.

Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us!

Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift;
our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.


Rumi

ohhh my such beauty and truth

Red- no fear of stopping the flow - share whatever is in your heart to
share in this place of peace


Andrea - the air seems fresher in here ... ahhhhhh I love the vibe


Lee - I love your Rumi-nating

Poet - ahhhhhh

YOU’RE IT


God
Disguised
As a myriad things and
Playing a game
Of tag

Has kissed you and said,
“You’re it –

I mean, you’re Really IT!”

Now
It does not matter what you believe or feel

For something wonderful,

Major-league Wonderful
Is someday going
To

Happen.


-Hafiz-

I RAIN

I rain
Because your meadows call
For God.

I weave light into words so that
When your mind holds them

Your eyes will relinquish their sadness,
Turn bright, a little brighter, giving to us
The way a candle does
To the dark.

I have wrapped my laughter like a birthday gift
And left it beside your bed.

I have planted the wisdom in my heart
Next to every signpost in the sky.

A wealthy man
Often becomes eccentric,

A divine crazed soul
Is transformed into infinite generosity

Tying gold sacks of gratuity
To the dangling feet of moons, planets, ecstatic
Midair dervishes, and singing birds.

I speak
Because every cell in your body
Is reaching out
For God.

-Hafiz-

GOD JUST CAME NEAR

No

One

In need of love

Can sit with my verse for

An hour

And then walk away without carrying

Golden tools,

And feeling that God

Just came

Near.


-Hafiz-

I HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH


I
Have
Learned
So much from God
That I can no longer
Call
Myself

A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim,
A Buddhist, a Jew.

The Truth has shared so much of Itself
With me

That I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, an angel,
Or even pure
Soul.

Love has
Befriended Hafiz so completely
It has turned to ash
And freed
Me

Of every concept and image
My mind has ever known.


-Hafiz-

I start my every morning here reading this whole thread even though I
have read and read it over and over, it soothes me so that I may start
my day and carry through it a positive note.Such a peaceful way to begin
each day.

How wonderful Jenni! That makes me smile. And yes I agree, it a
beautiful resonance within which to start the day. I am so happy to see
you here.

THE QUINTESSENCE OF LONELINESS


I am like a heroin addict
In my longing for a sublime state,

For that ground of Conscious Nothing
Where the Rose ever
Blooms.

O, the Friend
Has done me a great favor
And has so thoroughly ruined my life,

What else would you expect
Seeing God would do!

Out of the ashes of this broken frame
There is a noble rising son pining for death,
Because,

Since we first met, Beloved
I have become a foreigner
To every world
Except that one
In which there is only You
Or—Me.

Now that the heart has held
That which can never be touched
My subsistence is a blessed
Desolation

And from that I cry for more loneliness.

I am lonely.
I am so lonely, dear Beloved,
For the quintessence of
Loneliness,

For what is more alone than God?

Hafiz,
What is more pure and alone,

Magnificently Sovereign,
Than God.

-Hafiz-

Sherrie,

'I Have Learned So Much'....

aaaahhhhhhhh, thankyou.

Lee

I knew you would like that one - my pleasure to share...

Thank you for your sharing here.

As your heart opens....the light falls upon the darkness of the
day...thereby instilling the peace...

Such a light in this world...you surely are...

Michael Gabriel

A MIME


A mime stands upon a gallows
For a crime he did not do.
When given a last chance to speak,
He remains true to his art.

A crowd of hundreds has gathered
To see his last performance,
Knowing he will not talk.

The mime takes from the sky
The circles of bright spheres,
Lays them on a table,
Expressing deep love
For the companionship and guidance
They have given him for so many years.

He brings the seas before our eyes,
Somehow a golden fin appears, splashes.
Look, dear ones, there is turquoise rain.

He removes his heart from his body and seems to
Arouse all life on this splendid earth
With such a sacred tenderness,
There for an extraordinary moment
It looked like someone was giving birth
To the Christ again.

He mounts his soul upon the body of Freedom.
The great Breeze comes by.
The sun and moon join hands,
They bow so gracefully

Then for a moment, for a moment
Everyone knows that God is real,

So the tongue fell out
Of the mouth of this world
For days.

-Hafiz-

Michael


This thread feels like home

LET’S EAT


Why

Just show you God’s menu?

Hell, we are all

Starving—

Let’s

Eat!


-Hafiz-

WHEN THE VIOLIN

When
The violin
Can forgive the past

It starts singing.

When the violin can stop worrying
About the future

You will become
Such a drunk laughing nuisance

That God
Will then lean down
And start combing you into
His
Hair.

When the violin can forgive
Every wound caused by
To others

The heart starts
Singing.


-Hafiz

My head is bursting
with the joy of the unknown.
My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
Every cell,
taking wings,
flies about the world.
All seek separately
the many faces of my Beloved.

-Rumi-

Jenni -